Re: PL/Perl list value return causes segfault

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:59:37PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>>Note that all plperl functions are called in scalar context, and it is 
>>always wrong to return a list (as opposed to a listref). In fact, the 
>>value received might surprise you even if it worked (it would be the 
>>value of the last member of the list).
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>Hmm, I don't know if it's feasible to do in Perl, but maybe check
>whether the function wants to return something in list context and throw
>an appropiate error message?
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In perl, if there is any ambiguity it is the called function that is 
responsible for checking, not the caller. See "perldoc -f wantarray". 
PLPerl explicitly passed G_SCALAR as a flag on all calls to plperl 
routines. So returning a list is a case of pilot error.

cheers

andrew